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My New Tejon

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VaTom617

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I have reading all the great things about the Tejon, so I took the plunge and bought one yesterday. I live in Central Virginia.If there is anyone else living near me that has a Tejon can I get your comments on the Tejon and any tips for hunting around here.

Thanks so much !!!!
 
I like like how light it is too. GB seems to be something that needs to be practiced. I haven't had a detector that had manual GB in years. It was a Whites. I wish you the best with yours. Maybe someone from VA can share with us some tips or comment on what their Tejon has found at sites where they have used another detector in the past.
 
Hello. GB is easy to figure out. Turn your GB 5 or so turns to the right then back it off 2 turns or so. That should put you close to a neutral balance. Get a slight threshold (hum). Lower the coil from 10 to 2 inches down slowly. If the threshold gets higher pitched turn the threshold dial down a little bit. If it gets lower or you loose the threshold turn it up. If you hunt in all metal get a neutral ground balance. If you hunt in discriminate I'd run it a little on the positive side. Good luck. Post you finds. I'm in Dinwiddie, VA.
 
Hopewell is a great area to start. City Point should be right down the road from you. Flower du Hundred is near you as well. I'm only a hop skip and a jump away in Dinwiddie. Do your research and you shouldn't have any trouble at all.
 
I'm trying to learn this machine but using an XLT and an XS has spoiled me. I finally tried not discriminating out any iron on the lower knob and set the upper one on foil. This seems to be similar to what I use on the other detectors. I was getting good signals from the primary discriminator knob when set on foil but when digging up the target I would find a flat piece of iron. Very perplexing so...that is why I am trying the above settings. At least I can check it with the upper knob set at foil or slightly beyond. The Tejon is sensitive to small brass pieces and shotgun shot as I have found both at good depth. I know it will take some time to master. I remember thinking I had made a big mistake buying the Minelab after using an XLT but other than the weight it is my favorite detector. I bought the Tejon for the weight as my back is quickly leaving me! HH.
Mike
 
Iron is tricky and I'm still trying to figure it out on my Tesoro. If sweep over iron it will sound good one way but the other it will be broken up or sound harsh. If you sweep it from multiple directions and you get a good tone from all of them it is a conductive target. At least that is what I'm finding out. On my Minelab if it is conductive it is a nice high tone BEEEPPPPP Same goes for my Nautlis. The new Troy will most likely have Tone ID. I can't wait ;)
 
Read the section on ground balance a couple time and practice. I have seen articles that put in in terms like a volume knob. When lowering the coil, if the threshold increase, then turn the GB knob CCW. If it decreased, then turn the GB knob CW. Just like a volume knob, CW to increase and CCW to decrease. One you get the hang of it, you will quickly get the machine ground balanced and will get to the point where you will do this automatically and not really think about it. After awhile it becomes automatically natural in operating the machine.
As for accessories, the 575 coil in trash areas may or may not make the difference in hunting that spot or moving on to a cleaner area. Good Luck.
 
Try this over a suspected iron target:

In AM mode slowly bring your coil towards the target and see where it starts to raise in tone, take note of that spot. Now do the same from the other side of the target. Do it from above the target and below the target also, if it is iron you will get a large target area. In clearer terms aproach the target from 3-9-12-6 o'clock. Also if the target pinpoint wanders or refuses to be in the same place clearly after repeated swings you;ve got iron or a large piece of metal like a can or sheet metal or maybe a treasure chest! :)

Practise this with a target laying on the ground a coin and then a chunk of iron, you will soon get the hang of it.
 
I also have a Tejon, but I've not used it but from 10 to 20 hours so far. If you like I'll send you a pdf file on Tejon tips.
 
and keep it on the machine. You will lose little if any depth and you will be able to hunt anywhere. The Tejon loves buttons and most other small things but especially buttons.
GB is easy. Find a clean spot, turn the GB down so that the tone come's when you raise the coil, no need to turn it all the way down like they say. Then pump the coil while turning the GB control clockwise until you get a slight moan while lowering the coil... then hunt!!

You can swing it as fast as you like. I set disc one on the "L" of foil and disc two so that a nickel break's up. You will get a decent hit on most buttons, on disc two this way. If you get a solid tone on disc two, go back to disc one and raise it until you see where it break's up, then dig it to see what it is. You will soon learn it and love it.

Do not be afraid of the small coil... it is your friend! Every relic hunter I know who uses a Tejon, uses the small coil exclusively...

Julien
 
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